Premiere: Saturday September 18, 7PM
Screenings:
Saturday September, 18, 25 – 7PM
Saturday October 2, 9, 16, 23, 30 – 7PM
Saturday November 6 – 7PM – Last screening

Proa’s Auditórium
For more information: auditorio@proa.org / 4104-1000/1001

About the film

Proa Cinema presents SANTIAGO (Brazil, 2006, 80’), João Moreira Salles’ most acclaimed production. The film will screen each Saturday until November 6, at 7PM.
Since it was launched, SANTIAGO has received many awards from different film festivals, obtaining a great international acclaim. In Argentina, it was screened at the 2007 edition of BAFICI film festival and was considered as one of the most distinguished documentaries.
João Moreira Salles is one of the most acknowledged documentary filmmakers of Brazilian contemporary film. He began writing scripts for television in 1985. Since then, he has directed ten documentaries, many of them awarded internationally. “Entreatos” (2004), “Nelson Freire” (2002), “Notícias de uma Guerra particular” (1999, co-directed by Kátia Lund) and “Jorge Amado”(1995).

Overview
SANTIAGO, Brazil, 2006. 80 minutes
Direction: João Moreira Salles
Executive producer: Mauricio Andrade Ramos
Photography director: Walter Carvalho, A. B. C.
Producer in chief: Beto Bruno
Sound producer: Jorge Saldanha
Editors: Eduardo Escorel and Livia Serpa

About the filmmaker

João Moreira Salles is a documentary filmmaker. Since 2006, he is editor for Piauí magazine. He began his carreer in 1985 as script writer for the five episodes sitcom  “Japão, uma Viagem no Tempo”.
In 1987, he wrote the script for “Krajcberg o Poeta dos Vestigios”, film for which he received the awards for best investigative documentary at the Festival dei Popoli (Florence, Italy); best documentary film at the New Latin American International Film Festival, in La Habana (Cuba) and the Golden toucan for the best TV show from Río de Janeiro at Rio’s V Festival (Brazil).

In 1987, he directs “China, o Império do Centro”, special prize from the Paulist Association of Art Critics and the Award for best TV reportage from the brazilian association for literary critic.

In 1989, he shot the documentary “Poesia é uma ou duas linhas e por tras uma imensa paisagem” on the poet Ana Cristina César, winning the Grand Prize at the Fotoptica Festival. That same year he also directed América, a series of five documentary episodes on North American culture, shot at the US and broadcasted by TV Manchete. It was considered by the critics as one of the best productions for Brazilian television.
In 1990, he produced “Blues” a special episode on North American black music, which was awarded the special jury prize at the International Art Film Festival from the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris.
From 1991 until 1996, he devoted to advertisement and won several awards. In 1995 he directed alongside Jorge Amado a one-hour documentary film on the racial issues in Brazil, based on the writer’s work. Co-produced with Continental Cameras (France) and broadcasted by France 3 and GNT (Brazil) stations.
In 1998, he premiered the documentary series “Futebol”, co-directed with Arthur Fontes. Filmed in a two years period throughout Brazil, this project is a portrait on Brazilian football, a chronicle of the athletes lives in different moments of their careers: the beginning, the fame and the players anonymity. The three-episodes sitcom was nominated for that year’s Emmy awards under the international documentary section, and was selected in the International Documentary Film Festival from Amsterdam. He also participated in New York’s Film Festival where he was amongst the Latin American runners-up.

In 1999, Moreira Salles co-directed alongside Katia Lund “Notícias de uma guerra particular” a documentary film on street violence in Brazil. Rio de Janeiro is the film scenario. Policemen, drug dealers and favela inhabitants are the characters. They take part in a daily war with no victories. The film won the 2000 award for best documentary film at the É tudo verdade Festival of São Paulo and was runner-up for the Emmy Awards and the New York Film Festival.

In 2000, Videofilmes launched a documentary series “6 Historias Brasileiras”. Moreira Salles co-directed with Marcos Sá Corrêa the episodes “O Vale” (on the ravaging of the Atlantic forest of the Paraíba Valey) and “Santa Cruz” (on the birth of the evangelist church in Rio de Janeiro’s suburbs).

In 2003, Moreira Salles premiered Nelson Freire, a feature film on the Brazilian pianist’s career. Shot during the artist’s 2000 European and Russian tour, the film captures images of his concerts and the intimacy of rehearsals and his home studio. The film contains Nelson Freire’ s delectable musicality, acclaimed worldwide.

In November 2004, his documentary film “Entreatos” showing the most intimate moment of Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva’s 2002 presidential campaign. The film reveals the behind the scenes of an historical moment using exclusive material, private conversations, strategic meetings, phone calls, transfers, discourse recordings and electoral programs. In 2006 he finished Santiago, a documentary feature film on his family’s former butler. The film was awarded best documentary at the Alba Film Festival, in Italy and the Festival du Réel, in Paris in 2007.

Press

Casa con fantasmas / Juan Forn. Página 12. 03.09.2010
João Moreira Salles. Estuche Freak. 03.09.2010
Santiago. Cine Búho. Septiembre 2010
Santiago de João Moreira Salles. Librosgratis. 03.09.2010
Santiago de João Moreira Salles. EsLiteratura.com. 04.09.2010
Santiago! Seminario Gargarella. 09.09.2010
PROA Cine estrena una joya del documental: Santiago Impulso Baires. 18.09.2010
Santiago, de João Moreira Salles Yahoo Noticias 22.09.2010
Santiago de João Moreira Salles El Amante 18.09.2010
Estreno PROA CINE: Santiago, de João Moreira Salles El Reverso
Santiago Guyazi 16.09.2010
PROA CINE : “Santiago”, de João Moreira Salles EraMusical Enterarte Cultural 18.09.2010
Proa Cine presenta: Santiago de Joao Moreira Salles Moda Fusión Arte 18.09.2010
PROA Cine estrena una joya del documental: Santiago Otros Cines 18.09.2010
Santiago Fotografías 18.09.2010
Santiago de João Moreira Salles (2006) Bamarte 18.09.2010
Proa Cine presenta ‘Santiago’, un film documental dirigido por João Moreira Salles Arte en la Red 13.09.2010
La seducción del valet -SANTIAGO documental del cineasta brasileño Joao Moreira Salles Cine al Sur 27.09.2010
Santiago, el magnífico documental de Joao Moreira Salles Taller La Otra 25.09.2010
La seducción del valet Página 12 24.09.2010
Dos grandes documentales Hipercrítico
SANTIAGO, DE JOAO MOREIRA SALLES Terra 22.09.10
Hoy sábado: PROA Cine estrena una joya del documental: Santiago Impulso Baires 18.09.10
Cae la noche tropical Radar 26.09.10
Continua El Documental Brasileño SANTIAGO Revista Llegás 18.10.10
“Santiago” de J. Moreira Salles Weblog Clarín 18.10.2010